The Winners Of The Sony World Photography Contest

By Savannah Cox

Published March 19, 2014

Updated January 16, 2018

A Swede jumps out of a plane

This year, the Sony World Photography Contest received an astonishing 139,554 image entries. Ranging from the beautiful to the desolate, the humane to the ultimately alien, judges sifted through hundreds of thousands of technically immaculate and artistically stunning representations of the world’s various corners. While the official award ceremony won’t be held until April 30th in London, we’re giving you a sneak peek at some of our personal favorite entries.

A delicate hummingbird in Colombia

A man participates in cow racing, a common event in Indonesia

Indonesian children arm wrestling

Boxers swipe blows in Auckland

A street musician wandering about Chile

Lightning over the Nordic skies

Shiite Iranians get muddy in Bijar during the Imam Hussein mourning ceremonies